Circle of Comfort

Sometimes, the only thing which can define a successful person is the extent of his comfort zone. Most people start living in a city/working for a company/have a certain work profile and over a period of time, they become comfortable in it. No matter if they were happy or unsatisfied with it in the beginning.
But more often than not there comes a time, once you have grown used to this zone; you are given an opportunity or a need arises which will make you go out of this zone, do a new kind of work, move to a different city. On the outward it looks great to have the change, but as it comes closer you start becoming uneasy, distraught and wish to keep the status quo.
You have reached a comfort zone. The longer you stay in it, the more difficult to move.
Some people just give that chance up, some manage to drag themselves through to the otherside while the others embrace the change.

I think I am in one of those situations now, moving from Mumbai to Delhi. When I initially moved here, i gave myself 2 months to get out.. now its over 2.5 years and I am still here. Whats surprising is the mental block I am facing in moving to Delhi. But then I have set some things in motion and its not possible to stop the move.
I used to think I am one of those guys who can embrace change and are always ready to explore new places. But ALas I note, the comfort zone has caught up on me.

Several entrepreneurs I read about are people who when they hit a wall, or are run down; have the ability to pick up and start back from zero. Put themselves back from a 10/100 ppl company in a comfortable office to a single person company run from a garage like room.
I am going back there, and have been finding flimsy excuses to get back into the comfort zone. In reply this is the email I got from my partner who left me to my devices and moved to china to startover.
Vikram, here is the route map for you:-
- check the the resumers for ppl in delhi we are having
- search for new ones- invite ppl for interview
- select one
- be a good boss
- start calculating financial validity of your business ideas, it might help

First Direct Sales Experience

In the process of moving to Delhi from Mumbai, I realised have a whole load of dress samples which are duplicates are defects or extra productions. As India is not really a country for European dresses such as ones sold by Mango and Zaara, we werent able to dispose these off to local retailers.
For the first time today, I am trying to show these to the AIESEC Trainees and retail to them directly. I am not really sure how many trainees will even turnup. There was just one email inviting the trainees to the show.
I have seen several retails sales experiences where people put up their whole stalls and nobody ever shows up. Being in their shoes is one of my big nightmares, but then its part of the whole sales thing.

Mumbai to Delhi

We are shifting our business from Mumbai to Delhi.
Essentially, I am going to have to go back to Zero and start from scratch here.
Spent the last 1 week looking for flats in Delhi where I could operate from... After roaming all of south delhi, i figure Dwarka (at the end of delhi) is the only place suitable to accept my type of requirements. Young single male, needing a decent double BR flat where Foreign trainees male and female can share and work.
Delhi is so bloody conservative, that no one allows a girl and boy to share a flat unless they are engaged or married. On top of it, the lease should be a Company Lease only given to professionals working with big MNCs, no business men allowed.

I guess that even reflects the nature of Delhi Vs Dwarka. Dwarka is the new housing societies built in the last 5 years at the west end of Delhi close to Airport. Its somwhere between Delhi and Gurgaon, in geography and culture.
While I am terrified at the prospect of moving to Dwarka, which is rather far (20 kms) from all the happening places in Delhi, i have little choice. But this is part of the path I have chosen.
So heres to Entrepreneurship.. and heres to a new start!